Voltaire Introduces New Software for Ultra-Fast Storage Access
20 September 2010 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of scale-out
data center fabrics, today announced a new software solution that
provides ultra-fast remote block storage access over a 10 GbE or
InfiniBand fabric. The software can be deployed over industry
standard servers to enable high-performance x86-based storage or
gateways.
Voltaire Storage Accelerator™ (VSA™) software enables a storage
server pair to process up to a million I/O operations per second
(IOPS) and deliver more than 10 GB/s of data. A unified cluster of
storage servers using VSA instantly becomes capable of delivering
tens of millions of transactions per second that can be shared
among any server in the fabric. VSA software speeds access time by
a factor of 100X over traditional storage systems, leading to far
greater application performance at lower costs and using
significantly less space.
VSA improves performance of applications that require rapid
access to data such as persistent messaging systems in financial
services, analytics, data warehousing and high-performance
computing. For cloud computing and environments running VMware ESX,
VSA can boost virtual machine performance, and eliminate I/O delays
and boot storms, while significantly reducing storage costs.
Voltaire’s portfolio of scale-out 10 GbE and InfiniBand
switches, management and application acceleration software is
focused on delivering performance and efficiency in the
consolidated data center by accelerating applications while
improving infrastructure utilization and reducing space and power
requirements. VSA software is the newest addition to the portfolio
and addresses the last bottleneck in fabric performance: storage
I/O.
“There have been many recent advancements in storage throughput
with the advent of SSDs and other technologies, so now the
challenge becomes how to drive this mega-capacity over the
network,” said Asaf Somekh, vice president of marketing, Voltaire.
“VSA solves this challenge and enables IT organizations to build
their own high-performance storage system with off the shelf
components. This is the storage solution cloud providers have been
waiting for.”
In a recent benchmark test conducted by Voltaire and Fusion-io,
VSA with a single industry-standard 1U storage server using
Fusion-io ioDrive Duo drives produced close to 500,000 IOPS and
delivered more than 5 GB/s of throughput.
VSA is installed on standard Linux storage servers and can front
end DAS (SAS/SATA), SAN (FC/iSCSI), Flash or RAM-based storage. VSA
ensures that the storage devices can be accessed in parallel over
the fabric at speeds that are a few magnitudes faster than any SAN
technology, while providing iSCSI management semantics for ease of
use. In addition, VSA can be deployed as a tier zero storage cache
in front of slower DAS or FC SAN storage systems, or to provide
Fibre Channel I/O virtualization allowing fabric consolidation and
eliminating the need for Fibre Channel HBAs.
Availability
VSA software is available today. More information is available
at www.voltaire.com/vsa.
Voltaire Executive to Present at HPC Financial Markets
Conference Today
Patrick Guay, General Manager, U.S. Operations at Voltaire, will
speak about the unique value of VSA software on a panel entitled,
“High Performance Storage Options for Demanding Financial Services
Applications,” at the 2010 High Performance Computing Financial
Markets show and conference at 11:00 am ET today at the Roosevelt
Hotel in New York City. Mr. Guay will join panelists from HP,
VMware, and R Systems to discuss high performance storage options
that keep pace with HPC, low latency and virtualization
technologies for high-volume trading. They will also address how IT
managers can save money, power, and space despite increasing
demands on data center storage.
About Voltaire
Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) is a leading provider of scale-out
computing fabrics for data centers, high performance computing and
cloud environments. Voltaire’s family of server and storage fabric
switches and advanced management software improve performance of
mission-critical applications, increase efficiency and reduce costs
through infrastructure consolidation and lower power consumption.
Used by more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100 and other premier
organizations across many industries, including many of the TOP500
supercomputers, Voltaire products are included in server and blade
offerings from Bull, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, NEC and SGI. Founded in
1997, Voltaire is headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel and Chelmsford,
Massachusetts. More information is available at www.voltaire.com or
by calling 1-800-865-8247.
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limited to, those discussed under the heading “Risk Factors” in
Voltaire’s annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December
31, 2009. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the
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